Tuesday word: Kobold
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Kobold (noun)
ko·bold [koh-bold, -bohld]
noun (in German folklore)
1. a spirit or goblin, often mischievous, that haunts houses.
2. a spirit that haunts mines or other underground places.
WORDS RELATED TO KOBOLD
gnome, gremlin, bogeyman, brownie, demon, fiend, imp, pixie, spirit, sprite, dwarf, giant, goblin, hobgoblin, leprechaun, monster, ogre, nixie
See synonyms for kobold on Thesaurus.com
Origin: Borrowed into English from German in 1625–35
HOW TO USE KOBOLD IN A SENTENCE
After the pilot finished scanning a swath of land—on a good day, the helicopter will cover more than 100 miles—the data was transmitted via satellite to KoBold scientists working in offices thousands of miles away.
THE BIG TECH QUEST TO FIND THE METALS NEEDED FOR THE ENERGY OVERHAUL|MADDIE STONE|AUGUST 11, 2021|MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
Finally, they fed all this information into an artificial-intelligence system KoBold developed in partnership with Stanford University.
THE BIG TECH QUEST TO FIND THE METALS NEEDED FOR THE ENERGY OVERHAUL|MADDIE STONE|AUGUST 11, 2021|MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
In German folklore, a kobold was a mischievous household spirit.
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GHOULS, GOBLINS, AND GHOSTS?|DICTIONARY.COM|NOVEMBER 1, 2010|DAILY BEAST
But he reproved her conduct, and even struggled with the kobold who tried to prevent his releasing her from the crab.
COMPLETE SHORT WORKS|GEORG EBERS
Kobold (noun)
ko·bold [koh-bold, -bohld]
noun (in German folklore)
1. a spirit or goblin, often mischievous, that haunts houses.
2. a spirit that haunts mines or other underground places.
WORDS RELATED TO KOBOLD
gnome, gremlin, bogeyman, brownie, demon, fiend, imp, pixie, spirit, sprite, dwarf, giant, goblin, hobgoblin, leprechaun, monster, ogre, nixie
See synonyms for kobold on Thesaurus.com
Origin: Borrowed into English from German in 1625–35
HOW TO USE KOBOLD IN A SENTENCE
After the pilot finished scanning a swath of land—on a good day, the helicopter will cover more than 100 miles—the data was transmitted via satellite to KoBold scientists working in offices thousands of miles away.
THE BIG TECH QUEST TO FIND THE METALS NEEDED FOR THE ENERGY OVERHAUL|MADDIE STONE|AUGUST 11, 2021|MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
Finally, they fed all this information into an artificial-intelligence system KoBold developed in partnership with Stanford University.
THE BIG TECH QUEST TO FIND THE METALS NEEDED FOR THE ENERGY OVERHAUL|MADDIE STONE|AUGUST 11, 2021|MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
In German folklore, a kobold was a mischievous household spirit.
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GHOULS, GOBLINS, AND GHOSTS?|DICTIONARY.COM|NOVEMBER 1, 2010|DAILY BEAST
But he reproved her conduct, and even struggled with the kobold who tried to prevent his releasing her from the crab.
COMPLETE SHORT WORKS|GEORG EBERS
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Date: 2023-01-18 08:23 pm (UTC)There's also Morbus Kobold. It's named after a vacuum cleaner by the brand Vorwerk. They named one of the models Kobold.
In his dissertation urologist Theimuras Michael Alschibaja talked about a series of very poor autoerotic decisions by a eight men.
I've heard about it in a podcast first, and apparently one of the cases was a young man who was brought to the hospital by his father. Said father just couldn't believe what had happened and… well, he visited the same hospital a few days later…